A discussion on scary health issues and corruption took place with special guest, Professor Peter Pitts. Peter Pitts is President and co-founder of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest, and a former member of the United States Senior Executive Service and Associate Commissioner of the US Food & Drug Administration where of his many tasks. He served as senior communications and policy adviser to the Commissioner.  

Professor Pitts discussed how parents have been in panic over the baby formula shortage, what caused this shortage, and what the FDA is doing to prevent it from continuing. He also explained why it has taken so long to fix the baby formula shortage, and who is to blame. 

He went into detail about when it became of knowledge that there was a problem, and also that there was purposeful hiding from the FDA about the manufacturing problems. 

The other scary issue discussed was security breaches on medical devices. In April of this year the Department of Health and Human Services posted an alert to healthcare agencies of an exceptionally
aggressive ransomware group targeting hospitals and healthcare
facilities. There can actually be an unauthorized person or persons who will attack and take full control of system access, remote code execution, change configuration, file system read accession, log information access, and also denial of service. We are NOT prepared for this. Not all medical facilities are prepared for this. 

Another issue discussed was that WTO World Trade Organization has been trying to stop the stealing of Covid 19 vaccine
patents, and about the monkeypox vaccine that is really the smallpox vaccine, and how health has really turned into a business. 

Dr. Pitts recently published his new book, The Next Normal on how we can apply the lessons learned from COVID-19 to advance other areas of healthcare.